Port Forwarding my Minecraft Server not working with external IP

I’ve started up a Minecraft server inside of VMWare on my laptop, the guest OS is Ubuntu

Host OS: Windows 10 (Version 20H2 OS Build 19042.867)
Guest: Ubuntu
Program: Minecraft 1.15
Java: OpenJDK 8

Guest Details

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Release:        20.04
Codename:       focal

VMWare VMware® Workstation 15 Pro 15.5.6 build-16341506

So it starts up just fine, here’s netstat

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:25565           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      1174/java

The Networking is Bridged so that it has it’s own proper IP on my router

• When I connect to the Local IP Address it connects just fine

I Port Forwarded it on my Spectrum Router, the default router the ISP gave me

Router Brand: Sagecom
Router Model: RAC2V1S

When I check with any website such as https://canyouseeme.org but others as well they all say they can see the port just fine. Just for the sake of testing I also entered a wrong port number and it said it could not see it so that’s a vote of confidence.

Success: I can see your service on ###.###.###.### on port (25565)
Your ISP is not blocking port 25565

However all attempts to connect to it from my external/internet IP address (The one that’s supposed to be port forwarded and the one that can reportedly be seen) result in this error message

Failed to connect to the server
io.netty.channel.AbstractChannel$AnnotatedConnectException: Connection timed out: no further information:

I did a classic telnet check, sure enough it works from my local network

Trying ###.###.###.###...
Connected to ###.###.###.###.
Escape character is '^]'.

but sits there forever on the external/internet IP

Trying ###.###.###.###...

For note I even disabled literally all the security on the server and on my laptop and it still doesn’t work, same situation, nothing changed.

I’ve been at this constantly for the last 6 hours and am at the point of giving up. I have no idea where this is going wrong. The ports open according to the website, the server is running fine, I can connect to it locally. I have no idea.

If anyone can help me it’s much appreciated.